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Energy and utilities is where most of our consultants built their careers, and where the cost of getting a programme wrong is seen by the regulator and felt by every customer.
PEF Consulting Partners is a senior led consultancy built in the energy and utilities sector. Our leadership recovered the BP Pulse EV charging rollout across five continents, led the first ever migration of a water utility onto the Kraken platform, served as compliance and enforcement lead on Ofgem’s Energy Bills Support Scheme, and directed IT infrastructure for the UK smart metering programme covering twenty five million meters. For market wide half hourly settlement, see MHHS readiness. For suppliers and utilities on the island of Ireland, see Ireland and Northern Ireland.
It is an unusually difficult environment for change. The regulatory obligations are non negotiable, the assets have forty year lives, the systems are old and deeply integrated, and a single misstep is visible to the regulator and to customers. We have worked across the sector, with E.ON, National Grid, BP, Ofgem and Smart DCC, on programmes ranging from one million to nine billion pounds.
Translating regulatory obligation into deliverable change. Price control commitments, licence condition changes, market wide programmes and the reporting that comes with them. We know the difference between what a regulator requires and what a consultant thinks the regulator requires.
Asset management, billing, settlement, work management and finance systems, in estates where nothing can be replaced in isolation. See ERP implementation.
Independent assurance for boards and regulators on major capital and change programmes, and taking control when one has already lost its way. See delivery excellence.
Imbalance, settlement and market wide half hourly settlement, where small errors in data quietly cost real money over many months.
Billing and customer platform migrations done as full programmes, covering data, operating model and cutover, including the first ever water utility migration onto Kraken.
The data, process and controls behind credible environmental reporting, built to survive scrutiny rather than only to satisfy an internal committee. See ESG and compliance.
For suppliers moving onto Kraken: independent assurance of the plan and the data, and full integration when you want it.
Finding the errors that inflate imbalance costs, and getting settlement performance ready for the four month timetable.
Rollout recovery, DCC integration and the replacement of 2G and 3G communications hubs.
Selection, delivery and data migration for the systems that plan and record work on network and water assets.
Senior led change for suppliers, networks and water companies, from operating model to the platforms that run it.
Our leadership has delivered some of the largest and most demanding programmes in UK energy and infrastructure. A few of them:
Whether you are standing up a programme, recovering one that has stalled, or proving to a regulator that it will land, we can help. Senior people, honest advice, and no pyramid to pay for.
The discipline that lands a programme is the same wherever it runs. The sector sets the context; it does not set the standard.